Hey Peter!

Jul 15 18:16 06, Peter Knapper wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> As far as output being compatible with DOS apps any OS 
 MK>> can be if it really wants to be.  

 PK> Not really, a DOS app has the limitation that DOS has no concept of 
 PK> Resource Sharing.

Yes but that has nothing to do with IO on any other OS wrt DOS
compatibilty.  If known what a DOS app is looking for in terms of input
then it is entirely possible to create that without ever needing the actual
DOS application, such as a Linux msged in my particular case.

 PK> From DOS 3.3 I have used nothing but SCSI (except OS/2 1.3 which I 
 PK> ran for about 9 months, I used an RLL drive for that as a SCSI driver 
 PK> was not available without a cost) and never had that sort of issue. 

SCSI is a tad too expensive and not as readily attainable as ATA.  Nice if
you can get it and afford it but a real bother out here on the edge of
nowhere.  I do prefer it though but not really easily doable.

 PK> I too found that one tricky, early Linux (RH V2.0!!!) seemed to 
 PK> require Primary partitions for everything so I flagged that.

In my particular situation it was OS/2 that wouldn't cooperate.  Linux had
no problem with the crippled bios.  OS/2 did.  Thus given the then
situation Linux, and DOS for about a week or two, won out and I never did
get back to OS/2 once that machine was later replaced.  I managed to
squeeze more use out of that 486 then most people would have.  I took it
beyond the limit.

 PK> grabbed by the Linux apps of that time.......;-) I picked up an ISO 
 PK> of ubuntu 6.06 the other day, when I find some spare time (big joke 
 PK> here at the moment.......;-)) I will take a look at that...

I know little about it other then it is another Linux distribution and that
some people seem to like it for whatever reason(s).

 PK>> You will note the app I suggested has both OS/2 and DOS versions...

 MK>> No Linux?  Tsk, tsk.

 PK> And no source code either.......;-(

They can keep it then.

Life is good,
Maurice

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